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<12/18/1971 ~ 06:45 | Unknown Territory>

Danny inhaled the fresh air so suddenly, confused by the displacement. His eyes needed one second to adjust, though he felt a little more refreshed than before, apart from his sore legs.

The forest around him was brighter, and a faint orange glow of sunlight finally lifted over distant treetops. With hardly any of it available, the glow was burnishing off the very leaves of the large trees to create floating shadows everywhere. Danny could now see much further through all of these trees looking past the sunrays, and only now was he noticing that the density of the vegetation remained mild.

Realizing what happened to Taylor from last night, Danny checked where she was; still asleep next to him balanced against the boulder. Danny knew he had done it over and over before, but could not stop ensuring that Taylor was still alive. It seemed almost impossible before, but he checked her vital signs once again; pulse first, then her breathing rate. Everything seemed normal, other than her induced sleep from that incredible injury.

Just when he was about to leave her alone again, Danny suddenly noticed movement from Taylor. Her hands and her feet were shifting a little. Her fingers twitched nervously, and her breathing became loud and tense. It was not long before she began fidgeting more in her sleep. It was not unusual for Taylor to fidget in her slumber, but to see her still conscious in there meant the world to Danny; this proves she isn't paralyzed either.

Danny could only watch curiously while Taylor began swaying her head back and forth, sitting up and turning around as she became more conscious. She let out a few soft groans as if someone were trying to push her awake, whispering out inaudible noises. With little delay left, Taylor opened her eyes, returning gently to consciousness.

Taylor could not explain what happened to her, nor did she remember much about what was going on. She managed to recall waking up just now, opening her eyes to an unfamiliar place. The sky was right over her, but so were several trees, and a faint glow of morning sunlight. This wasn't Kalamo, and it sure wasn't the cruise ship either. Before she could even think about what happened, Danny decided to stick his face right over her own. Reacting quickly, Taylor slid back against the stone and rose up immediately, startling Danny in the process. How did they get here? What happened? "Where am I? Danny? What's going on?!"

Danny put his hands up a little to try and calm her down, but he was suddenly excited by how well she was doing waking up like this. Taylor didn't even seem fazed at all. "Relax Taylor," Danny soothed. "You're going to be okay. Take it easy."

Taylor studied her surroundings in all directions. Forest, forest, nothing but forests. The grass was barely there at all, mostly top soil and dirt dampened from rainfall. There was a massive tall rock cliff to the side as well, rounding off in both directions, but that did not explain what she was doing here. "How did I get here? Where are we?"

Danny took a deep breath hoping to explain everything. Obviously, Taylor must not have remembered falling down that wall. Understandable, since she did gash the back of her head almost open completely. "I'm not sure how far back you can remember, but we were trying to scale a dangerous wall, and you were severely injured."

"Ah—" Taylor was hardly believing the words coming out of Danny's mouth so far, but she couldn't say anything with him jabbering on about what apparently transpired. What wall was he talking about? And if it was dangerous, what business did she have climbing it?

Danny continued, "You took a massive hit to the back of your head and went unconscious for an hour or so. I'm amazed you're even still alive Taylor." Danny could only feel so much relief that she was okay, and his heart still refused to slow down in the same disbelief.

"The back... Of my head?" Taylor slowly reached her left arm around her neck, and used the palm of her hand to feel for any abnormalities. Her skin did not feel any different than it had before, nor was she experiencing any kind of headache. The very back of her neck did sort of hurt to the touch, but not intensely. "My head feels fine... But my neck?"

Danny's expression changed in an instant. To his own disbelief, he got in closer, and forced Taylor to turn around. "What?! You must not be able to feel it, but it's there. Here, let me see." Just having Taylor awake again was more than Danny deserved, and he knew it full well. He could have done so many things differently that involves keeping her safe, and he chose the most reckless course of action.

Danny ended up pulling on Taylor's hair slightly, angering her to his sudden move. "Ouch! Don't pull on the hair please!"

Danny's head began spinning. That bloody gash on the back of her head, which was clearly visible just an hour ago had completely vanished away. There was no blood, no indication of an injury, and no peeling skin on her neck or her scalp. The afflicted area did seem slightly darker than the rest of Taylor's neck skin, probably due to a residual of the bruising it caused. But where in the world was the scar?

After Danny let go, she turned around to meet his silence. Taylor saw the expression change on her friend's face again. This time, his eyes were bouncing around, as if he had seen a ghost. What the hell did he just notice? "What's with you?"

Danny didn't know what was going on with her, or how to explain it. He saw Taylor fall from a 250-foot drop, landing directly on the back of her skull. And when he discovered she was still somehow alive, that gory gash on the back of her head should have still been here right now. "That's... That's impossible!" Even if he had somehow slept for days without noticing, wouldn't Taylor have woken up sooner to realize that? And if she hadn't, the both of them would have thirsted to death after a few days. Danny struggled to find his breath again, trying to find words to describe the insensible situation right in front of him. He then stared into Taylor's eyes, with his own as determined as ever. "You were injured, I saw the scar!"

"You're starting to freak me out," Taylor admitted. Did he want her to be injured? Or was he delusional?

"No, you're starting to freak me out!" Danny pointed to Taylor's face, bringing all more dramatization to his point. "I saw it. I saw you fall and get hurt. You were out for over an hour! There's no way you're neck healed that quickly! Where's your scar?" It wasn't exclusively this moment which bothered his mind to the core. It was now that Danny remembered some strange moment back aboard the cruise, the instance reminding him about a place or a light he had seen before, memories that didn't belong to him, thoughts that were most foreign to him... Is this the same world he was born in, or was he perhaps delusional after all?

Taylor did not approve of Danny's freakout. If he could hear himself, Danny would know that he was getting upset about her being in good health. Something else was wrong, evident of her missing some details. Whatever got Danny spooked could be something more obvious, but first she needed answers. "Hey Danny? Stop talking."

"What?" Danny was frozen twice in surprise. Taylor was now just going to tell him to shut up and keep quiet?

Taylor addressed Danny directly. She was getting to the bottom of this. "Now... Start from the beginning. I only remember something about a large cruise, the Tidal Max... And then..."

Danny could see the confusion return to Taylor's face. She really didn't remember too much. "We both went exploring outside, on the deck, even when we were told not to..." It was now when his fragmented memory of the green glow bothered him most, the allure too strong to resist, born of a foreign curiosity none could resist. "All of this is my fault, every single moment of it..." The moment was hazy even to him, but why didn't Taylor stop him from leaving the interior?

"What for?"

Danny knew he had to retell every detail, but did Taylor not even recall the glowing green aura of magic just outside the deck? Their very location on this island proved he wasn't dreaming. "I saw a strange green glowing light, and you saw it too. I don't know what possessed me to go outside to see it, but I couldn't control myself. Neither one of us should have been out in that storm. Come to think of it, maybe you tried to warn me, and I didn't listen."

The way he was rushing the explanation made this all seem like make-belief, but his words still carried all of his worried tone with it. Still, it was too unlike him to be uncertain of why he would do anything stupid; Danny is a lot of things, but he never lacks self-awareness. After Danny paused momentarily, Taylor replied with anything to fill the silence. "I don't know what to think, but I'll have to take your word for it. I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize! I don't deserve it. Regardless of why or how, I dragged us both onto the outdoor area of the cruise in the middle of a massive storm. Had I just stayed inside, we wouldn't be here right now."

"The Tidal Max couldn't have sunk. That's not..."

Danny's hand motion told Taylor to shut up immediately, and it worked just as well. "Will you stop jumping to conclusions? We didn't sink. We fell off, right off the deck of the ship during an oceanic tilt."

Taylor's expression froze solid, still finding trouble bringing her mind to believe it. How could they both had fallen off the deck of the ship? In a rainstorm, it seemed more likely, but what about getting back inside?

"Then," Danny continued, "we were in dangerous waters for some more time, caught right in that horrible storm. Miracle after miracle, we ended up surviving it until the storm calmed down. Then we swam for the nearest land available to us, which was not easily visible, not even to our ride apparently."

"So... We're on an island?" Taylor guessed. This is horrible! How will she eat? Where will she go?

"Once on shore, we were both tired from the commotion, but I needed to know where we were. Even now, I'm not certain if this is an island, but we needed to scale a very massive wall to get over it."

Taylor suddenly remembered in a deep flash back. Talking about the wall triggered her last thoughts. She remembered climbing up the wall of an impossibly tall cliff, and everything else further back, but absolute blackness after that. Her gasp confirmed it to Danny before she explained herself. "I remember now. I remember the light, the storm, the violent waves, all of it. I remember climbing the wall, but nothing after that."

"That's when you fell," Danny concluded, turning his guilty gaze away from her. "Which was also my fault. You suffered an injury so severe; I was certain you didn't make it. I was thankfully impressed you were alive at all, unconscious, but still alive." It was only now that Danny revealed to her how relieved he was for Taylor to be okay.

Taylor pressured, "I'm alive. What happened after?" The thought of her falling from such a height dug into her many fears, but it still seemed like a distant dream too.

Danny thought about what happened for him to get this far. He did just wake up from a nap, but the past few hours were too crazy. "Then I scouted around more, finally found an easier way past the rock, and jumped in with you. I had to carry you all the way over here. But this island, whatever it is, it's bigger than it seems."

Taylor was silent in deep thought. This explains the trees, the dislocation, and everything else. Even the time of day was not that far ahead and forward. Judging on the sunrise and location, it had to be about 6:30 A.M. or later, and it also explains why her friend sounds so guilty. If Taylor injured herself from one of his ideas, he had to be feeling terrible right about now.

"But that reminds me." Danny was staring at Taylor's head again. "I need to see the back of your head again."

"My head is fine," Taylor assured. It was not even hurting at all, though it did feel a bit tender to the touch.

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Danny was not buying it at all. "But you shouldn't be fine! You should be in pain, or unconscious, or partly disabled. You took a direct hit right where your spine is. There's no way you can possibly be okay, not from a fall that high!"

Taylor remembered this tone. Danny was frightened by this development. Taylor pressed on her neck again, and allowed Danny to see it to prove once again that her wound that Danny claimed was there was totally absent. Taylor even explained how it felt in that one spot. "It does not even hurt much. The only thing I feel right now is... I'm tired."

"It can't be..." Danny sunk his head down, now in a trance to think about what could cause instantaneous healing with no side effects. How was this happening at all? Just two hours ago, he and Taylor both were safely snug aboard a class-four cruise ship on its way to a nearly free country. Now they were trapped in god knows where, with crazy impossible things happening. Was this some sick nightmare? I want to wake up now.

Taylor remained silent too, assessing all that happened. Though she felt fine physically, there was still room for rest, and even some food. "Hey, Danny?"

"It doesn't make any sense. I fell too."

"Huh?"

Danny explained his own situation as well. "At about 100 feet from the wall, I was a nervous wreck thinking you were dead, so I jumped off at that height, landing only on my legs. I was sure I had sprained them to some extent. Even now, they feel sore from before, but I can still walk on them, and they don't even hurt that bad anymore. How is that possible?" Danny had noticed this after he woke up a minute ago. The pain in his legs was still harsh, though much less intense compared to before. He could even squat on them without causing a strain. He could stand up without stumbling over. It wasn't complete, but they too were healing rather quickly.

"Hey, Danny?" Taylor attended. "How about we look for a better place to eat and rest first? We can figure all of that stuff out later. Don't we need to survive if we're trapped on an island? I am hungry ya know."

Danny could not even deny his own stomach. All of that swimming, climbing, falling, and jumping certainly worked up an appetite. But even with the forest this lit up already, it could go on forever, and he did not notice any tasty fruits or berries nearby. "You're right. Let's go. I don't know where we will find anything, but we should still try and search the area." Danny relaxed quickly. The mystery of Taylor's immediate healing surely bothered him, but Taylor was already alive and awake, and that spoke volumes about how good she was right now. If Taylor really is okay, then why worry so much about it?

Taylor was satisfied with his course of action, standing up beside him and ready to walk in any direction. Her legs and arms worked just fine too. Other than being thirsty, hungry, and tired, she was ready to walk just to find something. Danny seemed ready to move too.

Danny took into account several random details he did not concern himself with earlier. First of all, Taylor was still acting like her usual self. So regardless of what was going on with her, she was still Taylor all the same. It goes further to prove that he isn't dreaming. Second, the density of the trees here is significantly lower than what it was before. That does mean something. Something unnatural or something different was in the general vicinity. "Follow me. We might find something around here."

Taylor wondered what kind of deserted island they had landed on. It could end up having inhabitants on it, or dangerous animals, or nothing at all. After being reminded of what mostly happened, his reactions to her earlier made a lot of sense. She remembered that natural cliff wall in detail; it was huge. If she did fall down from a high place, according to her own logic, something should be heavily injured. But instead, she felt as normal as ever. As she followed Danny around, walking slowly in one direction, she thought back to her home and her family. Her parents would be missing her as soon as the Tidal Max arrives at New York and uncle Nyar does not spot them exiting from the bay. Maybe then, someone will send a search and rescue party.

Danny dragged his legs forward with light fatigue. Despite being exhausted and hungry, his thoughts continued circling back to how that scar on Taylor's head vanished so suddenly, and now she was walking along as though nothing bad had happened to her. It was beyond bizarre.

After counting the minutes and checking the tree density, which did not really change since the last nineteen minutes, Danny stopped in his tracks, causing Taylor to stop moving as well. Taylor noticed that Danny was stopping for no real reason, and he had his eyes nearly shut.

"What is it?" Taylor probed.

"Shhhh! I can hear something..." Danny and Taylor both remained silent, listening for any kind of echo in any direction. With just a few more seconds passing by, Danny heard the noise again echo through the leaves. The sound was brisk and quiet, but still available for him to hear, coming from straight ahead. It almost sounded like a person hollering out something, diffused with multiple echoes. Danny never stopped to consider that this island might be inhabited by someone.

"I heard that too," Taylor announced. "Should we keep going?"

Danny gave Taylor a down to earth look. "Of course we keep going! You want to starve out here?"

Ignoring how rude his stomach was allowing him to be, Taylor proceeded forward past Danny, hoping to bump him on the shoulder just enough to annoy him. She squinted her eyes and ducked down a little, finally noticing that the line of trees ends up ahead. Something really was on the other side. Even though Danny was playing catch up, Taylor was leading the route further in. It only took about one more minute until Taylor made it to the edge of the woods on the other side, revealing a well-groomed open field of short cut grass.

Spanning to a few hundred meters wide, the vast openness of this area was interestingly populated with eight or more houses, which were spread far apart from each other. With an old looking well tap set up near the center of the circular field, Taylor studied more while crouching down near the cover of the bushes to remain hidden. People obviously do live here, but what kind of people?

Danny joined Taylor's hunt for answers, but everything seemed to get even more mysterious with this discovery. The houses were all painted a certain color, indicating that they are not nomads or Indian like people. Their houses were not big, but well made, likely using some kind of timber. It came close in comparison to a modern day structure if not for the old style to the design. That well in the center obviously supplied this place with water. This is some kind of village.

Before long, Taylor and Danny continued to observe even more about this place. There was no way it was deserted. It looked like there were cleared paths that exit the town further ahead and more to their west. Following the sound of a closing door, they tracked in sight a child who seemed to be at the age of six judging from height running around like the place was his favorite play area. Then an adult woman stepped into view, probably the mother. Little by little, Taylor was noticing even more people walking around, up to something individually. This place was getting livelier than it was before with little time passing, probably since the sunlight was now carrying up much higher.

"I can't believe it," Danny spoke. "It's a village."

Taylor guessed, "Could be an entire town." There were not all that many people involved, but Taylor soon decided to uncover herself from the bushes and move in much closer, even though that would make her visible to anyone here.

Danny tried to pull her back, believing it was a bad idea, but Taylor walked away too quickly for his hand to reach out that far. Taylor walked carefully, still crouched slightly while trying to get a view behind the closest house that obstructed the view behind it. Taylor only wanted to continue observations this way, since the foliage of the bushes behind her obstructed more than half her entire field of view. To her surprise, the land mass was much bigger than she expected it to be. There were two additional open paths in the distance, looking like natural roads leading into more directions into the forest, each covered in dying grass with a tarnished yellow color for their formalities. But barely beyond the road furthest away, Taylor saw some other building, very short in vertical size, but also too wide to classify as a house. It was painted black, and had some kind of decorations she could not make out from this distance.

Danny remained hidden, and saw one of the adults wearing some kind of white robe approaching Taylor directly from her right.

Taylor noticed the man in the robe as well, but she did not run or back down. Whoever he was must have been trying to see who she was and what she was doing here. If he speaks English as well, then this cannot be just any random island.

There was still a growing amount of people moving about in the open field. This was obviously some kind of network neighborhood of people who all share the same land generally and get along enough to keep living here without a fight. There was no sign of conflict here or anywhere else.

The guy in the robe finally got in speaking range of Taylor. Taylor prepared herself for anything, but the guy in the robe finally stopped without touching her, obviously to say something. First, he lowered his hood down and revealed his face. About thirty years old, Caucasian male growing in a small mustache and beard with a skinny body. He kept the rest of his white robe on, but stood there to speak to Taylor. "Are you lost, young one?"

Taylor back away a little in surprise. She wasn't expecting a slanted version of an English-speaking person to be so... "Uh'm..." Taylor found herself speechless. She didn't know what to say or who this man was. Whatever robe he was wearing did not look familiar with the fabric materials she was used to seeing, and there was something strange about him she did not trust, other than the guy being a total stranger.

"It's okay ya know. I'm not going to hurt you."

Taylor spotted someone wearing the same colored material heading her way, but it was a woman this time. The woman's eyes were on the person trying to talk to Taylor, and her walk was aggressive and quick.

"Kain! What did I tell you about...? Huh?" The interesting woman seemed to be upset by something this Kain guy did, but now she was distracted by Taylor's presence, staring intensely into her face for a brief moment. She then looked back to the man she addressed as Kain. Taylor was getting answers without even saying anything, but what could she say? "Who's this?" the woman bartered.

Kain gave the woman a very short look to her, then focused again back to Taylor while explaining his situation. "This appears to be a non-inhabitant to our town. She doesn't seem to be able to speak."

Taylor blushed, cursing herself for being so shy and making a fool of herself. But before she could prove that she had a voice, the woman beat her to more speech. "That's because you probably scared the hell out of her. I told you to stop looking like a creep in that robe. It's only been two days since you've worn the upgrade, and this is the third issue I've had to put up with about it. Stop going around by yourself talking to random people! We do things like that together."

Now Taylor was impressed. Whomever the woman was obviously did not treat him very well. She seemed over the top bossy, almost like they were an angry married couple. But to be fair, the guy totally gave off a creepy vibe, even now while he was with company. Kain's new expression told Taylor that this kind of fighting was normal to him. With a quick clear of the throat, Taylor tried to say something back in the middle of their bickering. "M-my name's Taylor."

The woman stopped talking to Kain, now only focused on Taylor. After a brief second, she started conversing with Taylor with a greeting. Her voice got so high and cheery, like she was talking to a little girl. "Hey there. My name is Bella." Bella held her hand out to Taylor openly, obviously to shake her hand.

Taylor had the same kind of guess, and shook Bella's hand firmly. Before Taylor could get much more word in, Bella decided to continue talking. She seemed like a usual chatter bot.

"I can tell you aren't from around here, but there's no need to be shy. Tell your friend hiding in those bushes over there that it is safe here."

Danny heard the entire conversation so far, and he knew that Bella was talking about him. Even below a bush, he did not stay well hidden. Defeated in his stealth, Danny hesitantly stood up tall again, taking his time to stroll back to Taylor's side. On his way there, he had some more time to analyze these two. Bella and Kain were adults in this town, but whatever they're here for could have been anybody's guess.

Bella watched as both the new boy and the new girl known as Taylor were standing together, curiously looking for information. Taylor looked like an early teenager, while the boy seemed about the same age for his type. "And you are?"

"Name's Danny," he swiftly replied. There wasn't time to introduce everyone. He needed answers right now. Taylor's injury would have to come after securing food and water for them both. "Now where are we?"

Bella was light on her formalities. She turned around half-way showing off the town again, which now had been populated with at least fifteen people. "Good to meet you Danny. I know you are both from out of town, but that does not mean you can't join us and have a look around. Welcome to Fronas!"

Taylor felt even more embarrassed. Though Bella was a total stranger as well, she seemed a little too overly excited on her introduction to the name of the town. Did she say Fronas? "I've never heard of it."

Danny saw Taylor now looking at him for an answer, but he had not the slightest idea where or what Fronas was anyway. "Don't look at me. I don't know this place either."

"May I ask where you are from?" Kain questioned.

Danny answered simply into one word, "Kalamo."

"And I have to say that I have never heard of it either," Bella replied.

Danny began talking to them both as if they were people he knew in order to make everyone feel more at home. The odd fact that they speak proper English made it easier. "I'm not surprised. How would a civilization level from an island like this know about a lower level country like that?"

Bella seemed puzzled by his answer. "Island?"

"Yeah," Taylor filled in. "He's talking about where we are now."

"Huh!"

Danny noticed that Kain had a confused look on his face as well, but he wasn't saying much else after. Don't hide things from us! "You seem troubled by that news?"

Kain nodded. "Oh I'm not troubled... It's just... Where do you two think you are?"

Danny and Taylor both exchanged looks, then returned their focus back to Bella and Kain. Kain was the next person to speak on behalf of filling them in.

"Fronas may be just a small town here in the Gulop Region, but this is certainly no remote island."

At the same time, Danny and Taylor gasped with their jaws half open. Taylor felt more confused than ever, and she tried to figure this out immediately. "If we're not on an island, then where are we?"

"I can't believe it," Bella added. "They're not just from out of town; they're from out of the country!"

"No... They aren't from the valley? How did they get here then, huh? They don't have any pass ports on them, so that leaves out the possibility of air travel." Kain and Bella were now arguing to each other about where Danny and Taylor were from, but did Taylor hear her correctly? Out of the country?

This time, it was Danny who had to interrupt them. "Excuse me, but... If we're not on an island, and we are somehow in a different country, then what country would that happen to be?"

Bella paused to analyze their curiosity, but didn't deny them in her next announcement. "Well, you are currently standing inside the boundaries of Sprawn Valley. Sprawn Valley is much bigger than it may sound, and we make up about a quarter size of the northern American continent, or if you will, one twelfth the size of present day Russia."

"Auhhh! It's that big?!" Taylor never realized how big an island could be until now. To think that she and Danny both swam to another country. But she had never heard of Sprawn Valley before, and there was an obvious hint that her friend knew only as much as she did.

"How did you get here?"

Danny had a sudden realization. If these people have houses, live in another country, and speak English, it is entirely possible that they could be useful to him. "Hey, you've gotta help us. I don't know where we are now, but we've been separated from our group. We were traveling in the ocean on a cruise, and somehow we fell off the ship. We only made it here by swimming through the ocean and climbing past that barrier to get into the forest, and..."

Danny almost left himself breathless after changing his attitude from careful to trusting, but Bella's concern for their safety had exploded into a massive urge to help them regardless of what they knew. "Oh my goodness. You swam here? You must be all worn out from that kind of experience, and hungry too."

"What was that about falling off a cruise?" Kain dwelled. "How did you end up in the ocean outside, and then appear inside?"

"Do you have anything that can help us, like food and water?" Taylor asked. Despite how okay she felt, Taylor's voice was still hoarse from the sea water she ended up swallowing on the way here, and it came out much worse than Danny's raspy tone with enough elapsed time, but she simply went along with Danny's plan to siphon living materials off these people.

Danny added in an additional concern of his while ignoring Kain's need to figure them out. "And if you have access to a cellular phone, I need to make a call as well." It seemed unlikely these people would have cellular phones, which were considered somewhat new technology. This little town appeared to be old fashioned by the looks of the outside and the small amount of houses in the field. Despite Kain calling this place an entire country, it didn't look as if more than 100 people could have possibly populated the infamous landscape.

"Well then," Kain offered. "I'm not sure what we can do about a phone all the way out here, but we can defiantly do better than food and water. You have much to learn about Sprawn Valley if you really are as new as you say you are, but for now, you must rest up and restore your energy. Come with us. I'll show you around to our medical facility. It's right in town, and though it is small, we have all we need to heal any patients of any injuries. We also allow travelers to rest up and eat for free."

Taylor's eyes sparked with such excellent news. These guys are not savages; they are incredible! Offering free food and rest so generously! "Oh, thank you!" Taylor even pressed her hands together to show her respect.

Danny felt that such a reaction was normal for Taylor, even if she was acting too helpless, but even he cracked a smile from the first good news in a long time. The people in Fronas may be strangers, but perhaps they are as useful as they are generous. Even after waking up from an almost perfect sleep on the Tidal Max, there was no denying that he and Taylor were in need of a nice long rest.

Both of them ended up following Kain and Bella towards the medical facility said to be in town. Now they would get perfect rest, and learn all they could about Sprawn Valley tomorrow.